Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its friendly staff and idyllic atmosphere you will soon relax — on the beach , at the bar or enjoying the fine Creole food in the attractive restaurant . |
| 2 | Direct processing of files organized sequentially or using the indexed sequential technique is covered in the chapters devoted to those types of organization . |
| 3 | In other words , the choreographer should set out to create a particular style for the whole dance design , yet within it be free to vary the way of performing a step without breaking away from or distorting the overall rhythmic quality and phrasing of his enchaînements . |
| 4 | These feature a large colour screen allowing users to select the information source they want simply by pointing or pressing the appropriate colour-coded key . |
| 5 | President Hussein no longer seems passionately interested in liberating Palestine , or in destabilising or over-running the small Arab sheikhdoms of the Gulf . |
| 6 | His fingers slid along her moist vaginal tunnel , continually teasing her pulsing clit , or nipping the fleshy outer folds of her swollen purse . |
| 7 | But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal . |
| 8 | Women ( like men ) may be tempted towards the cheapest option ( an APP ) rather than joining a good occupational scheme ( if this is available ) or paying the substantial personal pension contributions additional to the APP likely to be necessary to secure a really adequate personal pension in retirement . |
| 9 | Is it still feasible for the British Parliament to pass an Act repealing or amending the 1972 European Communities Act which enshrined the Treaty of Rome in British law ? |
| 10 | Faced with either crashing into the heavy gatepost or jumping the dark gaping ditch off far too short a stride , Hullabaloo tried to put in an extra stride and met the obstacle entirely wrong . |
| 11 | He had reached Blakemere , which was only two miles further on , when he pondered if he should take another direction and make his way to the river , but the thought that even this far out there 'd be a number of people on the banks today , mostly youngsters , he guessed , swimming or playing the usual dangerous game of swinging out over the river on a rope attached to a tree branch , deterred him . |
| 12 | Indeed , many executives harbor misconceptions , believing it is merely a matter of adding extra engineering and design personnel or introducing the latest computer-aided design ( CAD ) technology . |
| 13 | Although preferring the same soft acid water conditions favoured by the true Harlequin , espei tends to be less fussy about changes in the water chemistry . |
| 14 | Using ex-post data the job of the financial analyst is now considerably easier than using the full mean-variance model presented in Chapter 4 . |
| 15 | Do not be taken in by oil-company promises that opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration will never harm the 170,000 caribou that go there to calve . |
| 16 | Fortunately this is much easier than explaining the latest technical developments . |
| 17 | Her own clothes now , although comprising the same plain skirt and toning cardigan with a cream shirt , were bought , more often than not , from Yves St Laurent 's Rive Gauche , or Sonia Rykiel . |
| 18 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , having a consistent worldwide system is more important than having the best possible one in any single state . |
| 20 | Mr Jeffrey Record , a military analyst at the Hudson Institute and a former aide to the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman , Mr Sam Nunn , said it was likely to take months to rebuild the PDF into a military institution capable of supporting rather than threatening the new civilian government . |
| 21 | After all , paying for something that does not work is presumably more likely to produce frustration than receiving the same ineffective care ‘ free ’ . |
| 22 | It was considerably more civilised than visiting the average English town centre of a Friday night which shows how far we have come . |
| 23 | As yesterday 's solidly-argued report to the Scottish Office by a Glasgow University team demonstrates , procedures in social work and housing departments for identifying , assessing and helping the young homeless were drawn up when the problem was much smaller than it is now . |
| 24 | The doves gave up strutting and whitening the old ping-pong table and set off , flapping busily towards the purple hillside . |
| 25 | The long-term problem for this species is the creeping infiltration of marginal agriculture taking over and fragmenting the remaining suitable habitat for this species . |
| 26 | Once the question for the court becomes one of making its own assessment of the evidence , making findings of fact on all the relevant evidence placed before it and drawing the appropriate legal conclusion , and is no longer a question of simply reflecting government policy , letters from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office become merely part of the evidence in the case . |
| 27 | For all his earlier squeamishness , Bloxham had done well , returning Dowd 's guts into the bowel of the carcass , and mummifying the whole sorry slab in plastic and tape . |
| 28 | Detecting and quantifying the innate personal attributes of the effective nurse has puzzled recruiters for many years . |
| 29 | This has meant attempting to diversify energy imports with regard to the nature and the location of sources as well as achieving and maintaining the best possible balance between stability and flexibility in supply arrangements . |
| 30 | Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose . |